The image tag is more complex, the new (randomized ) jpg is generated (based on the URL parameters) on the fly each time the page containing the Flick River Badge markup is loaded. The (RESTful) parameters of the image URL are harder to guessed at. The image URLs I am using here were generated at the Web Site and I simply copied and pasted them into my markup.

Security Notes:

In order to access the Web Site to create badges, Flickr River requires you to

Have an active Yahoo/Flickr Account; and

To Grant FlickRiver access to your private photos (!)

What do you get for this? Access to the badge markup generator and the nice Badge JPG customized to your search criteria. So what can you do if you don’t want to give FlickRiver access to all of your Flickr photos? Well, just hack the URLs themselves. We are talking REST here.

Here is a FlickRiver Badge based on searches for the Most Recent Public Flickr photos tagged with the phrase ‘Lennon’: